fredxmertz: (Default)
2013-08-03 10:16 am

WHITBLOCK 2013

9th annual whiteaker block party

Locker Combo at 2 pm, Soothesayers at 8 pm. Other favorites will be Missing Links, Pirate Radio and Wetsock.

You may also find Ricky Bidness playing steel guitar with Dwight Dickinson at the Lazarus Pit.




fredxmertz: (Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth's RATFINK)
2013-07-15 11:39 am

my f/t position starts 7/24

so I'm gona miss my brother's birthday shindig in Berkeley. I'm trying to negotiate time off for the day off, August 3rd, Whiteaker block party. If I get the day off, It'll be a double header Soothesayers and Davy Jones Locker Trio amongst the entertainment at the 'anti-Ninkasi' block party stage, Whiteaker People's Party at Tiny Tavern.

My baritone guitar will get here tomorrow. Its the 59 re-issue, not the "Dead on 67".





I've been enjoying the book about VOCODERS: "How to wreck a Nice Beach" (http://howtowreckanicebeach.com/)

and trying to wrap up my 5 year long love/hate affair with Thomas Pynchon's MASON & DIXON

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fredxmertz: (Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth's RATFINK)
2013-06-15 10:16 am

Smells Like ...allergies




Did a gig with Dwight Dickinson last night at Tiny Tavern. It was a benefit for Brain Ake and the Family Mullet, as they got pulled over on their way to play a show in McMinnville, their RV was impounded and they got tons of fines for expired tags, speeding, and I don't know what all. So they raffled some gay porn and PEZ dispensers... Walking Trainsong played, which I didn't see, they're some (other) ex-bandmates of Mr. Mertz...

Soothesayers play in Portland this evening at Kelly's Olympian.



some ambient stuff recommended by STYLSS (Stop Taking your life so seriously)


BLACK LIPS!!!!!!!!!!!
fredxmertz: (UNvegan)
2010-03-01 06:44 pm

Hot Topic is the way that we rock it


Chicken cutlets with sundried tomato sauce, farfalle pasta and ciabatta with olive oil and anchovies.

yeah, there's not real veggies on the menu tonight.

liquid gratification: NINKASI Total Domination IPA